[ale] harddrive errors

[Geoffrey]

Chris Farris wrote:
> The 250G drive I bought last summer when Frys open started tossing the
> same errors last weekend. I'll never trust it again with vital data (I'm
> an unforgiving a-hole) but I hate to just toss it. I want to put it in a
> USB/Firewire enclosure and use it for swapping mp3s. 
> 
> Anyone know if running the lowlevel format tools will mark the new bad
> areas and allow this drive to be used again.

I don't know that that is necessary.  Depends on the filesystem, but 
e2fsck -c will (supposedly) mark bad blocks.

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Until later, Geoffrey